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Monday, July 30, 2012

30 July - Blogs I'm Following

*(Reuters) - European Central Bank President Mario Draghi must back up his pledge to do what it takes to protect the euro when the bank's policymakers meet on Thursday or else face deep disappointment fro...

*(Reuters) - The rebel banner of independence waves over the scorched streets and gutted cars that litter the urban battlegrounds of Aleppo, scars of a struggle in Syria's second largest city that fighter...

* Two teenagers have been injured after being catapulted from a fairground ride.* The boys were on the Mega Bounce Frog ride at Billy Bates Fairground in Abbey Park, Leicester, when it broke on Saturday ...

*A man and woman who had an adulterous relationship have been stoned to death by radical Islamists in northern Mali, a spokesman for the group Ansar Dine has said.* Sanda Abou Mohamed told the Associated...

*Jang Song-taek, the uncle of Kim Jong-un has solidified his position and is systematically dismantling the power structure put in place by Kim Jong-il before his death in 2011, South Korea's Chosun.com r...

I did this once before - turns out it was about a year ago - and although not many people participated, it made for good conversation and helped me get caught up with some friends. So why not? I still pref...

This was Teen Daughter The Younger's last day with Southern Man. After church we met with Southern Parents and Teen Daughter the Elder for lunch, and then went to the airport with plenty of time to spare s...

*TEHRAN, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Majlis (parliament) Speaker Ali Larijani said Iran will continue to support the Syrian government under any circumstances, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported M...

*A former police officer who lied about her daughter having cancer so she could take her to showjumping events has been jailed.* Rachel Hewitt, 39, of South Elmsall in West Yorkshire, claimed her teenage ...

*(CNN) -- Heavy rains in central and eastern Costa Rica have triggered floods that have forced evacuations and may be responsible for at least one death, relief workers said Sunday.* Four people are miss...

Mike Barrett *Activist Post* Research highlighting turmeric’s powerful health-boosting properties just seems to never cease, with some recent research showing yet again that the super spice can help to...

*(CNN) -- Two masked men set the offices of a prominent Mexican newspaper on fire Sunday, the second such attack on the daily this month.* The armed men walked into the Sierra Madre office of the El Norte...

*Hong Kong (CNN) -- Heavy rain across large swathes of North Korea has caused widespread flooding and killed dozens of people, state media reported, with warnings of more damage still to come. * The downp...

George Ure and Gaye Levy, *Contributors* *Activist Post* Of all expenses people can control, perhaps the one with the biggest variation (percentage-wise) is food budgets. If you eat out all the time, th...

*Kent State University police have arrested and charged a 19-year-old student after he sent a message out on Twitter saying he planned to "shoot up" campus.* William Koberna, 19, was arrested at his pare...

Stephen Harper -- that shrewd political strategist -- has maneuvered himself into the hands of the Parti Quebecois. He has vowed to stay out of the upcoming provincial election. But he will, nonetheles...

Another ALEC GOP headcase trying to rewrite their bad record on educational funding – by throwing blame at the Dems, for the mess that the Republican led Minnesota legislature has been causing for about ...

*ALEPPO, Syria, July 30 (Reuters) - The Syrian military stepped up its campaign to drive rebel fighters out of Aleppo on Monday, firing artillery and mortars while a fighter jet flew over a district the ar...

*Water, water, everywhere - Nor any drop to drink*.* *A case of the government seeking money and bondage from rural residents by purposely misconstruing an old law & bending definitions.* *Activist Post* ...

Happy Birthday to Peter Bogdanovich, 73. I just saw Last Picture Show again last week; it's just astonishingly good, isn't it? And I do love Paper Moon. That's not bad. On to the good stuff: 1. Kevin Dr...

*Activist Post* According to court documents, Adam “Ademo” Mueller, journalist and co-host of nationally syndicated radio talk show Free Talk Live, has been indicted on three counts of felony wiretapping....

Saman Mohammadi, *Contributor* *Activist Post* Do you remember this guy, Jason Russell? He was the frontman for the short-lived and over-hyped "Kony 2012" propaganda campaign that exploited young peop...

*MONDAY, JULY 30, 2012* *Part 1—Sophisticated reader alert:* Arthur Brisbane has been rather mush-mouthed as the New York Times’ public editor. Yesterday, Brisbane wrote his most illuminating column. It w...

Occupy Regent Street! This photo has been making the rounds... Since the private organization that hung the flags of the various nations on Regent Street in London kowtowed to Beijing (why?) and yanked do...

The verdict is certainly in on Romney's publicity stunt of a sojourn to the land of the Anglo Saxons: unmitigated p.r. disaster. Maureen Dowd used her analysis of it as an opportunity to give Obama a back...

With most of my efforts over the weekend focused around the house, I knew I would be hard-pressed to get any birding in over my time off. While I had begun to feel a bit rusty having not ventured out much ...

*Youtube* *RELATED ARTICLE: Did Mexican Official Blow Lid Off CIA-Managed Drug Trade?* Enter your email address to subscribe to our newsletter: Delivered by FeedBurner Be the Change! Share this using t...

This note was left on an earlier post about the ALEC annual meeting press coverage: July 27, 2012 11:54 AM Breitbart "News" has gained access but not Occupy News Radio--naturally (I'm here on the ground ...

*The battle between government forces and opposition fighters over Syria's largest city has continued to rage with each side claiming gains.* Fierce fighting for the past several days has centred on the S...

*Here she is!* “She’s probably the biggest news that’s happened in Rhode Island this year,” said Peter Rogina, a family friend who has known Culpo her whole life. He rattled off Rhode Island’s 11 percent ...

*They mean, if the TOILET is more than 1/3 full of water, use the wet flush button. Otherwise use the dry flush. Unintentionally hilarious mistranslation.* Good stuff out there, don't flush it! *BLOGS*:...

P. Gosselin's Notrickszone site has a post on Australian "shrinks" deludedly spouting off against climate skeptics. I submit the following response: *I have known for some time that the public climate ...

*A Moscow court has started prosecuting three feminist rockers who face a possible seven-year jail term for performing an anti-Vladimir Putin "punk prayer".* The band - called Pussy Riot - carried out th...

*"NSA Insider: You Are the Target: 'They’re Pulling Together * *All the Data About Virtually Every U.S. Citizen in the Country'”* by Mac Slavo "Few Americans would believe that the government has the t...

*Seafood and Coconut Soup!* When summer comes around I am always looking for a light and satisfying meal. This coconut soup does the trick. It leaves you satisfied, yet ready for a nice walk in the park. ...

*(Reuters) - Several banks under investigation for suspected rigging of euro interest rates have joined Deutsche Bank in giving information to EU antitrust regulators in the hope of lower fines if they ar...

*A cacophony of boos from the crowd helped force a reviewing jury to take the unprecedented step of overturning the decision of a referee and his two judges in the Olympic judo on Sunday.* After a close e...

* "Collapse Of Financial System Will Come In August, Maybe September?"* By Eleazar David Meléndez "Who said the dog days are over? Disappointed by the lack of aggressive action by the U.S. Federal Rese...

*Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has called on people to avoid physical contact, after the deadly Ebola virus spread to the capital, Kampala.* Fourteen people have died, including one in Kampala, since...

A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck NORTHERN COLOMBIA at a depth of 152.2 km (94.6 miles), the quake hit at 10:18:55 UTC Monday 30th July 2012 The epicenter was 16 km (9.9 miles) East of Zapatoca, Colomb...

“David Stockman, Conversations with Casey” "Former Congressman David A. Stockman was Reagan's OMB director, which he wrote about in his best-selling book, The Triumph of Politics. He was an original par...

*"Four Fiscal Cliffs Ahead, And A Jobs War"* By Paul B. Farrell "Election wars are masking the fiscal cliff that America is destined to drop off in early 2013, warns the Congressional Budget Office. Hi...

*A nine-year-old boy has died after falling from a window while on holiday. * Tributes have been paid to tragic Matthew Hamer, who is thought to have died in the accident at the hotel where he was staying...

KCTV 5 At least eight Walmarts across Missouri have been evacuated Friday evening after bomb threats. Two of the stores are in the Kansas City area. Two and a half hours after the threats were called in,...

* Prized Olympic tickets entrusted to foreign delegations are being openly sold by touts on the streets of Britain, it emerged last night. * They are cashing in on the huge demand for seats by selling ticke...

*UK mortgage approvals plunged 13% between May and June, dropping to the lowest level since December 2010.* According to data released by the Bank of England (BOE), 44,192 new mortgages were approved in ...

Top 10 GMO Foods to Avoid by Elizabeth Renter, Natural Society 29 July 2012 Genetically modified foods have been shown to cause harm to humans, animals, and the environmental, and despite growing opp...

*The 16-year-old boy who was murdered in Smethwick at the weekend has been named as Ben Morturare. * The teenage victim, from Walsall, died of a stab wound to the leg following a disturbance at a social c...

*I don't think so.* But let me add a few more words. In recent days, we witnessed two major salvos in the climate wars as well as many minor repercussions. Both of them are claimed to be equivalents of ...

I NEVER dream about football, did last night though. I was 'again, trying to get from A to B' (a common theme in my dreams) and there were (aren't there always) OBSTACLES IN MY WAY. Sometimes, it's floodin...

* NEW DELHI (AP) — The electricity grid across northern India failed Monday, leaving hundreds of millions of people without electricity in one of the worst power failures of the past decade, officials sai...

*(CNN) -- Heavy rains in central and eastern Costa Rica have triggered floods that have forced evacuations and may be responsible for at least one death, relief workers said Sunday.* Four people are miss...

* Syria has shut down its Australian embassy in Canberra, with the website stating it is now closed. * At the end of May, Foreign Minister Bob Carr announced a dramatic 72-hour deadline for two of Syria's ...

*(Reuters) - Three women who protested against Vladimir Putin in a "punk prayer" on the altar of Russia's main cathedral went on trial on Monday in a case seen as a test of the longtime leader's treatment...

*(Reuters) - Andalusia's sunny beaches, shady plazas and flamenco dancing attract millions of northern European visitors each year but the southern region has become symbolic of Spain's decline and its sm...

*(Reuters) - Two conversions that a Christian family says were forced have strained relations between a tiny Palestinian Christian community in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip and the Muslim majority. * Hundreds...

*(Reuters) - The former graduate student accused of killing 12 people in a shooting spree at a Denver-area movie house was due to make a second court appearance on Monday as prosecutors and defense lawyer...

*(Reuters) - Syrian troops said they had recaptured a district of Syria's largest city Aleppo, after heavy fighting against rebels who remain in control of swathes of the commercial hub despite being push...

*Open Letter to the President and Leadership from Health Professionals, Lawyers and Advocates for Medicare for All * July 30, 2012 Dear Mr. President, Secretary Sebelius, Majority Leaders Reid and Can...

*(CNN) -- U.S. gasoline prices have gone up by nearly a dime a gallon in the past two weeks, reversing a three-month slide amid an increase in crude oil costs, according to a new nationwide survey.* The ...

Northern Syria (CNN) -- They packed one on top of another -- children, parents, grandparents -- onto motorcycles, as many as six at a time, and then sped away as fast as they could. Others clambered into c...

*More details have emerged about three members of a family who were killed in Sydney's west on Sunday, as police form a strike force to investigate the killings.* Olga and Pablo Novosadek were found dead...

*63% of Americans think Mitt Romney's business background would make him more able to manage the economy.* By Manifesto Joe Yep, that's according to a recent poll conducted by *USA Today*/Gallup. Here's ...

*Six people have been arrested in Kenya in connection with the murder of Venezuela's acting ambassador. * The diplomat, Olga Fonseca, was found strangled to death at her official residence in Nairobi on F...

*Syria's government have declared victory on Sunday in a hard-fought battle for the capital Damascus, pounding rebels who had control of parts of its largest city Aleppo.* President Bashar al-Assad's for...

*At least 47 people have been killed in a fire on a passenger train travelling in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, officials say.* One coach of the Tamil Nadu Express from Delhi to Chennai caught fire a...

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck NEAR THE COAST OF ECUADOR at a depth of 57 km (35.4 miles), the quake hit at 05:19:47 UTC Monday 30th July 2012 The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) NNE of Santa Elena, ...

Your blogger with Joan Crockatt: Remember, when the author of this blog appears in a picture with a politician, it does not imply endorsement – he just can’t help himself! Below: Nomination candidate Jon L...

*"I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further."* Well...well... It seems WantWant Corporation, which was aiming to become the biggest player in Taiwan's frenetic media market, is rejecting ...

Posting here a good article by a good friend from Delhi, Barun Mitra. Barun is the founder and Director of a free market think tank there, Liberty Institute. This article was published in WSJ last week, Ju...

I'm not the kinda guy who believes in miracles but IOC might have just performed one as, since the 2012 London Olympics started a couple days ago, the skies over Oxford have been absolutely clear of these...

*There are reports that Bandar has been assassinated.* The CIA's man in Saudi Arabia is, or was, Prince Bandar. CIA's favorite Saudi prince is laying the groundwork for a post-Assad Syria Bandar has bee...

*Police in the Seychelles are investigating the disappearance of a British round-the-world yachtsman who vanished in the middle of the Indian Ocean. * Sean Terry, 48, vanished while piloting his yacht from...

hat tip: The Watchers: http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2012/07/28/major-harvard-study-confirms-fluoride-lowers-childrens-iq/ Majia here: This is the second study I've seen correlating fluoride in water...

*More than half of the rioters jailed after last summer’s violence, arson and looting are back on the streets. * As the anniversary approaches of the riots that tore apart English cities last August, it h...

*One of President Barack Obama's top security officials has briefed Israel's prime minister on U.S. plans for a possible attack on Iran, it was claimed today.* National security adviser Tom Donilon sough...

*This is the terrifying moment that a wildlife photographer was bitten by one of this subjects - and didn't even realize he had suffered a potentially fatal snake bite until the image was developed. * Mar...

*Seven people were killed in a fiery head-on collision on the freeway near Phoenix, Arizona when a semitrailer truck crossed the median and slammed into a van on Sunday.* Department of Public Safety spok...

*Police in charge of keeping the Olympics safe have lost the keys to Wembley Stadium.* Scotland Yard admitted last night that it was to blame for the shocking breach. Search teams spent days desperately...

*An Oklahoma high school student is behind bars after a cab driver reported hearing him plotting a Columbine-shooting at his school, police said. * Timmy Eike, 18, was arrested on Tuesday after police fou...

*Miami police are searching for an armed man who they say has shot at least three people – two relatives and a third unidentified victim.* Detective William Moreno said Sunday that 23-year-old Erin Cash i...

*Former Vice President Dick Cheney has some advice for Mitt Romney on choosing a running mate – don’t pick another Sarah Palin.* Cheney says it was ‘a mistake’ for Republican Sen. John McCain to pick Sar...

(CNN) -- An assistant New York state attorney general was killed during severe storms that barreled through the Northeast, killing at least two others as they unleashed strong winds and knocked out power t...

*"I Am Completely Different"* "I am completely different. Though I am wearing the same tie as yesterday, am as poor as yesterday, as good for nothing as yesterday, today I am completely different. Thou...

*(CNN) -- Embattled Romanian President Traian Basescu declared victory late Sunday after low voter turnout appeared to doom a referendum on whether to remove him from office. * The Central Electoral Burea...

Northern Syria (CNN) -- Syrian troops at a besieged military base just north of Aleppo fired out in three directions on Sunday in the face of a rebel onslaught, part of a high-stakes battle for a city wher...

A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN at a depth of 30 km (18.6 miles), the quake hit at 03:35:05 UTC Monday 30th July 2012 The epicenter was 454 km (281.4 miles) West of Ribeira, ...

*VIENNA — Austrian authorities say a man has died and several other people were injured after a tree limb crashed into tents at a festival during a storm. * The security department in Lower Austria provin...

*AT least 85 houses were destroyed in the wake of a tornado that struck four barangays in Jagna, Bohol at 11 a.m. last Friday. * The tornado struck barangays Can-upao, Bunga Mar, Cantagay and Ipil while a ...

*TIANJIN, July 26 (Xinhua) -- A much expected downpour bypassed Beijing Wednesday but battered the neighboring city of Tianjin, flooding many downtown streets and vehicles.* As of 11 a.m. Thursday, the m...

*Jack Black had to stop a concert with his comedy band, Tenacious D, midway through a Vegas gig last night after an audience member was stabbed. * Police found out that a man had lost a huge amount of bloo...

If you just discovered *DWT* or Blue America in the last 2 or 3 years this may sound incongruous, but there was a time we used to cooperate, to one extent or another, with the DCCC. After all, they were t...

*(Reuters) - It has all the appearance of an arms race on the roof of the world. * Asia's two great powers are facing off here in the eastern Himalayan mountains. China has vastly improved roads and is bu...

*"Goodness is something to be chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man." - The Prison Chaplain from Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film, "A Clockwork Orange." Watch the review of the film by Alex...

*The police says the border policeman called out for the vehicle to stop and were forced to fire when the car failed to comply. * Israeli troops opened fire at a Palestinian car at a checkpoint in the occ...

*A guard at the Italian Embassy in Yemen was kidnapped on Sunday in broad daylight in the capital, Sana, an official from Italy’s Foreign Ministry said.* The official, who asked to remain unnamed, said t...

*"The average person on the street thinks it's crazy. Even the team that's working [on] it - sometimes we think it's crazy."* Adam Steltzner is responsible for getting Nasa's $2.5bn Curiosity rover missi...

*A man who knifed his "controlling" stepfather to death after a long-running family feud boiled over has been found hanging in his cell. * Nathan Vaughan-Jones, 34, was found at Lewes prison in East Sussex...

*A dry, hot wind blows across the Jordanian desert, coating a freshly pitched city of tents with a fine film of dust. * "No-one would want to live in a tent here," admits Andrew Harper, head of the UN's r...

*TUNIS — Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said Sunday that he did not think Israel had yet made a decision to strike Iran, but that his goal in meeting with the Israeli leadership this week was to streng...

A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN at a depth of 42.7 km (26.5 miles), the quake hit at 22:05:09 UTC Sunday 29th July 2012 The epicenter was 135 km (84 miles) ESE f...

"In the center of star-forming region 30 Doradus lies a huge cluster of the largest, hottest, most massive stars known. These stars, known collectively as star cluster R136, were captured above in visible...

Asking a judicial officer to recuse themselves is amazingly dangerous. If they say no you are stuck with an angry jurist. If they say yes you have to start trial again. That said, Sheila Block is a brilli...

*"Study: Some Types Of Multitasking Are More Dangerous Than Others"* by The Ohio State University "In a new study that has implications for distracted drivers, researchers found that people are better ...

*"What Is To Be Done… Now?"* by Andrew Levine "In one of his final columns for "CounterPunch" (July 6-8, 2012), Alexander Cockburn gently took to task those of us, himself included, who went overboard...

“I believe in cultivating opposite, but complementary views of life, and I believe in meeting life's challenges with contradictory strategies. I believe in reckoning with the ultimate meaninglessness of...

*It's only fair to ask, if married people can't produce an offspring within a reasonable period, why should they be allowed to continue perpetrating this fraud?* *by Ken* Friday night I made what I like ...

*The false flag has been called off. I repeat, the false flag has been called off.** * *"Tuesday’s incident was an embarrassing breach of security days before the start of the Olympics.**"* *Maybe I spo...

During a speech to leading ultra-Zionists in Israel, Mitt Romney said that, if he is elected President next November, he will support an Israeli ‘unilateral’ attack against Iran. His words, as reported in ...

OccupyGreensboroNC Gets Busy Aiding Jeff Thigpen! (Stopping Wrongful Foreclosures) There are a few facts about national politics and its historical leadership that should always be at the forefront of citi...

*The Honorable John Quincy Adams United States Minister to Russia Dear Mr. Adams I have just now received your curious correspondence from Russia, which took close upon two months to reach me. Perhaps R...

I have only limited time to post a few pictures from a nimbly quick flickr account of the action yesterday, when we shut down a mountaintop coal removal site in West Virginia. I would have much preferred ...

LONDON - Her career was forged over more than two decades of training, of six-hour sessions, of 80 dives a day, five days a week. If Emilie Heymans decides to retire after the London Olympics, she's going ...

In the endless quest to sell magazines, this deliberately provocative Newsweek cover is creating some buzz today. The Mittster told CBS this morning, he "doesn't care what the media says.." Guessing th...

I was all fired up to write a corruscating review of last night's Olympic Opening Ceremony but then I saw it. Leaving aside the dewy eyed sentiment about the NHS and the ridiculous exhortation to admire ...

A Chinese destroyer sailed through Egypt's Suez Canal into the Mediterranean Sea, Egyptian daily Al-Shuruk reported on Sunday. The destroyer could be on its way to the Syrian coast, the Egyptian newspape...

*Donald Przebowski: The Rise And Fall of the United States: An Interpretation of History.* Here is a brief bio of author Donald Przebowski: "Donald Przebowski was raised on Long Island, St. James, New...

CBC reports that a heavily censored, declassified report obtained by the Canadian Press shows that the RCMP (with input from CSIS and the CBSA) have issued warnings about the supposedly growing threat of r...

*Klemperer with his Così score at the time of the recording* *by Ken* As I indicated in Friday night's preview, today we're going to listen again to a little of the recording that Otto Klemperer made of M...

A new "plan" for the rebuilding of central Christchurch is to be announced at 6pm today. This will be (hold on, let me count) the sixth different plan for rebuilding the central city to be announced by...

A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck NEAR THE COAST OF CENTRAL PERU at a depth of 61.1 km (38 miles), the quake hit at 17:35:50 UTC Sunday 29th July 2012 The epicenter was 16 km (9.9 miles) SSW of Callao...

Via Charles Johnson the latest Obama internet video. As Charles says: Of course, it’s a political move for President Obama to release this web ad on the day Mitt Romney visits Israel. But since the r...

Bill Ketron of Murfreesboro, TN takes credit for the rash of anti-voter legislation that is being implemented across the United States. The sponsors of Tennessee voter ID law say they were pushing the idea...

Aucklanders were sold the Super-Sized City on the basis of promised "efficiencies" and putative cost savings. With the arrival in their letter boxes this week of their rates bills, Aucklanders will for t...

Probably won't be a daily feature, but I just love Charles Dharapak's work so much, thinking I should share his twitpics more often. His ability to capture the perfect frame in any given situation is uncan...

We have a situation here. Either the reporter lied Or Curry Todd of Tennesse lied for/about ALEC. It is reported in an article about ALEC that Curry stated: Todd said the group is bipartisan with about 45 ...

I wrote a post elsewhere this week defending the early start of the 2016 presidential nomination race, but that sort of begs the question: what should that fight be about? Specifically, I'm wondering abou...

*Syria has expanded its chemical weapons arsenal in recent years with help from Iran and by using front organizations to buy sophisticated equipment it claimed was for civilian programs, according to docu...

*(Reuters) - An upgraded Russian unmanned spacecraft successfully linked up with the International Space Station on Sunday on its second attempt to test a new docking system, Russia's space agency said.* ...

*And he wasn't arrested?* "George W. Bush tells Romney staff to ‘seize the moment’ July 25, 2012 George W. Bush, who is skipping the Republican National Convention and has endorsed but not publicly embr...

*US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has said his country has a "moral imperative" to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons. * Mr Romney, speaking during a visit to Jerusalem, said Iran wa...

*US presidential hopeful Mitt Romney would "respect" an Israeli decision to strike Iran to stop the Islamic Republic developing a nuclear weapon, a senior aide to the Republican candidate said.* In the l...

*Syria's foreign minister has blamed a Sunni Muslim axis of Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia for fuelling the rebellion across the country.* Walid al Muallem made the remarks whilst on a visit to Iran - Syr...

A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck YUNNAN, CHINA at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:05:32 UTC Sunday 29th July 2012 The epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) East of Ning'er, China No Reports...

Okay, have at it, folks. I've been pushing the notion that Republicans have been guilty lately of lazy mendacity -- not just lies, misleading statements, and taking things out of context put particularly e...

Is it just me? Or does anyone else see the power of the Jewish elite that controls the world all over the so called London Olympics? We all can see the "ZION" in the logo for the 2012 Olympics, which is...

BUNKER-BUSTERS: big, designed to take out hardened targets. First designed by Barnes Wallis, the 22,000lb Grand Slam proved to be just the thing to take out Hitler's U-boat pens, the Tirpitz, and various via...

Anthony Gucciardi *Activist Post* It doesn’t have to be painful to improve your health, nor does it have to take a lot of time. While we could discuss the specifics of optimum health for what would amo...

Having a conversation with a bitumen booster is like talking to a climate change denier. It's impossible to have a broad-reaching discussion, covering all the bases. That's because the Tar Sanders hav...

A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck OFF THE COAST OF OREGON at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:07:31 UTC Sunday 29th July 2012 The epicenter was 379 km (236 miles) WNW from Bandon, Oreg...

Whenever I send out a package through the post office I always write "Fragile" on it. And these days I also write "I hate Darrell Issa Too," knowing postal workers will take extra special care of my valua...

*(Reuters) - A senior Israeli official denied on Sunday a newspaper report that President Barack Obama's national security adviser had briefed Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a U.S. contingen...

*(Reuters) - China's ruling Communist Party might insist that the murder charge against Gu Kailai, the wife of ousted Politburo member Bo Xilai, is a simple case of all being equal before the law, but win...

*(Reuters) - The government of Bashar al-Assad declared victory on Sunday in a hard-fought battle for Syria's capital Damascus, and pounded rebels who control of parts of its largest city Aleppo.* Assad'...

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